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יָד

yadhandHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun1,617 occurrences36 books1,445 verses

Definition

a primitive word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]
Traditional renderings: ( be) able, × about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, × bounty, broad, (broken-) handed, × by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, × enough, fellowship, force, × from, hand(-staves, -y work), × he, himself, × in, labour, large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, × mine, ministry, near, × of, × order, ordinance, × our, parts, pain, power, × presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, × thee, × by them, × themselves, × thine own, × thou, through, × throwing, thumb, times, × to, × under, × us, × wait on, (way-) side, where, wide, × with (him, me, you), work, yield, × yourselves.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יָד:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,617 total
  1. Judges 6:36בְּיָדִ֛י · by my hand
    Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,
  2. Judges 6:37בְּיָדִ֛י · by my hand
    …then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
  3. Judges 7:2בְּיָדָ֑ם · into their hands; יָדִ֖י · My own hand
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
  4. Judges 7:6בְּיָדָם֙ · with their hands
    And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.
  5. Judges 7:7בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ · into your hand
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”
  6. Judges 7:8בְּיָדָ֜ם · charge of
    So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
  7. Judges 7:9בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃ · into your hand
    That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
  8. Judges 7:11יָדֶ֔יךָ · your hands
    …and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.
  9. Judges 7:14בְּיָד֔וֹ · into his hand
    His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”
  10. Judges 7:15בְּיֶדְכֶ֖ם · into your hand
    When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”
  11. Judges 7:16בְּיַד־ · in one hand
    And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.
  12. Judges 7:19בְּיָדָֽם׃ · in their hands
    Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
  13. Judges 7:20בְיַד־ · hands; וּבְיַ֨ד־ · hands
    The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”
  14. Judges 8:3בְּיֶדְכֶם֩ · into your hand
    God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.
  15. Judges 8:6בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ · in your possession
    But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”
  16. Judges 8:7בְּיָדִ֑י · into my hand
    “Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
  17. Judges 8:15בְּיָדֶ֔ךָ · in your possession
    And Gideon went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your weary men?’”
  18. Judges 8:22מִיַּ֥ד · from the hand
    Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
  19. Judges 8:34מִיַּ֥ד · from the hands
    The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
  20. Judges 9:16יָדָ֖יו · as he
    Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—
  21. Judges 9:17מִיַּ֥ד · from the hand
    …for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
  22. Judges 9:24יָדָ֖יו · him
    …in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
  23. Judges 9:29בְּיָדִ֔י · were under my authority
    If only this people were under my authority, I would remove Abimelech; I would say to him, ‘Muster your army and come out!’”
  24. Judges 9:33יָדֶֽךָ׃ס
    And in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able.”
  25. Judges 9:48בְּיָד֗וֹ · in his hand
    …he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
  26. Judges 10:7בְּיַד־ · into the hands; וּבְיַ֖ד
    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites,
  27. Judges 10:12מִיָּדָֽם׃ · from their hands
    Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
  28. Judges 11:21בְּיַ֥ד · into the hand
    Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,
  29. Judges 11:26יְדֵ֣י · the banks
    For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
  30. Judges 11:30בְּיָדִֽי׃ · into my hand
    Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,
  31. Judges 11:32בְּיָדֽוֹ׃ · into his hand
    So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hand.
  32. Judges 12:2מִיָּדָֽם׃ · out of their hands
    But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.
  33. Judges 12:3בְּיָדִ֑י · into my hand
    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
  34. Judges 13:1בְּיַד־ · into the hand
    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
  35. Judges 13:5מִיַּ֥ד · from the hand
    For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
  36. Judges 13:23מִיָּדֵ֙נוּ֙ · from our hands
    But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
  37. Judges 14:6בְּיָד֑וֹ · hands
    …and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
  38. Judges 15:12בְּיַד־
    But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
  39. Judges 15:13בְיָדָ֔ם · them
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  40. Judges 15:14יָדָֽיו׃ · his hands
    When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
  41. Judges 15:15יָדוֹ֙ · his hand
    He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
  42. Judges 15:17מִיָּד֑וֹ · from his hand
    And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
  43. Judges 15:18בְיַֽד־ · through; בְּיַ֥ד · into the hands
    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
  44. Judges 16:18בְּיָדָֽם׃ · in their hands
    When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.
  45. Judges 16:23בְּיָדֵ֔נוּ · into our hands
    Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
  46. Judges 16:24בְיָדֵ֙נוּ֙ · into our hands
    And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”